Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-02-14
GOVERNOR FORAKFR.

tTpNefnofS FORAKER, tigleshy ana lSouns-
berry, Whitelaw Reid, Nelson Aldrich,
| Judge IedOey, Ex-Governor Cornell. Speaker
| James ". Hustled, Henry Cabot Lodge, ex-
Senator Platt Col Fred Grant, Stewart L.
WoOdford, ex-Judge Noah Davis and Hon.
| Daniel D. Rollins
| The chairman. James F. Foster, responded
| TO the toast THE Republican club and
when he spoke of 1883 there were loud cries
of Blaine" ''Blaine," and shortly after
ward another outbreak of applause for the
Maine man, which lasted two minutes
suggestion that twenty-one years residence
be requisite for a foreigner to vote was also
received with applause. The toast abraham
Lincoln was drunk standing and in silence,
except for an irreverent whoop from an en-
thuSiastic guest, who was promptly missed
down. Senator Hawley responded to the
| toast aud in the course of his speech said:
''Some people claim that if Abraham Lin
coin We're alive to-day he would not be
Republican. Laughter | wish | were as
sure of my own salvation OF of anything in
this world as | am that he would be a Re
publican. [Applause If he and l We're
| alive forty years from now, and he were not
a candidate, l would vote for the name,
Abraham Lincoln" IApplausel Loud bursts
Of laughter greeted the inquiry Gould Liu-
coin be a Mugwumpn
A letter from Mr. Blaine was then read in
which, after expressing his regret at being
unable to attend, be saws the fame of Lincoln,
Ike that Of Washington, will not diminish as
the Years go by. The celebration of Lincoln's
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which he cros s;,roroi,, at+oaLo4 NJ. pro;rs
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their fsuis in ortler To ratr;ava the dafsat nf
1881
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I tF nf labor no u. 81 In,
mentioned cold as the svmhoI If ,roaI,h
Here in Sew york we bavs NOT ,,asn ID, ia.
bapcbs,, ~, the notion thai it is nossihla for
rh., dahtor tn no allouad To cbsat IN, I'D
| tar TAnplausa I M uattar bo-v mon,
rurraaci.s we have, we shall insist that the
standard shall always be in the highest in
yalus, known 10 the ci,yiIizcJ world rAn
uisiIs., We believe in wealth W. do no,
subscribe to that dogma, that in the train of
wealth CcTne the evils of life. vic. and crime.
on the contrary there come hope religion
and civilization, But the RenubIican marty
has never been in favor of exporting the
most valuable Of our metals to settle ac-
/ cunts with foreign countries He then
made an argument in favor of protection,
and declared that the statement that we
we're an oyertaxed people was untrue. and
that not over $40, GJO, coo was raised by taxa
ton of necessar,es.
Tie speech Of the evening was that of Gov
srnor Foraker, Of Ohio. He responded to
the toast The Republican Party aud de-
clarel that until that party came into exist
snce parties had been divided merely on
| questions of administration or questions of
local consequence. The Republican party
t'-"lt Nith ISSUES lidt tipicaieu 10 HuludllltN,
10 the whole world. Speaking of the great
deeds Of the Republican party. Governor
Foraker included the establishment Of the
tariff. Not" he said "a medieval tariff, as
has been fiippantiy declared Of late by ona
high in power and who bv that declaration
manifested that he wond be more at bone
in the private business of running a ban, IN
New York than at the head of the treasury
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~ i'll..io'i1 VI tLe SO, IcIs rem
| partv Governor Foraker mentioned the fart
| that whan IN lSG0 tho total of valuations j.,
tho Initial States amounted 70 stc nle n..o
| 0o vybiie the Ranuh.icau r,rt,, ran.
ont If novar tbraa vsare ,,ro tba 70
had I.s,, .vyallad 70 almoet 10 xsn 3,,o eoo
paO He dacIarpd that the o,l, Gov t,,o
| psrpocrati,. rartv had hasp oblo 10 90, ;n,o
ro,ya, y,,s ~, ,,ror,;sirc. q, foI,orr a.
sraI ,,,inc;rl.. l.;5 doun bv Tho pa,,,II;to,,s
!, tba nas+ and NV rro,nis;n, 10 rsnou,co is
gannineIy nemocratic doctr;nas fan,,iansa !
On thiS noint he said that when the Ranuh.
Iican went ant of mower an the imnortant
onastio n! raisej before and durino the var
had haer sattlad ssand ca tborougbIy and cat
isfoctorilv settled that ali parties accent the
results rs Qualities The south whom we
were compelled to whip back into the Union.
call themselves New South to escape the
udium that attached to the old and thank lis
with profuseness because we did whip them,
and especially because wa destroyed the in
stitution of slavery. And as it is at the south
with respect to the result of the war So too,
is it throughout the whole country as to
every measure of national Importance
adopted by the Republican party while in
lo"sF' f'F N'ch ana every one there Is
only tho mos: unqualified appreciation In the
hearts and at the hands of all classes of peo-